This Week in Iraq

I apologize, for various reasons I wasn't able to compile as much information about humanitarian projects ongoing in Iraq this week. This is primarily due to me being busy, although it's possible that the rate of "key events" such as groundbreakings and completion ceremonies is little going to decrease until after the referendum. Still, here are a few updates:

$22 Million Infused into Local Economy through Construction Projects (10/3) A thousand construction contracts in nine provinces means a lot of jobs and a lot of new facilities.

Construction Complete on Two Water Treatment Plants in Najaf, Begins on one in Baghdad (10/4) Sanitary water is one of the necessities that brings a nation out of third-world status.

Six New Schools Open in Sulamaniyah (10/6) If you were an Iraqi parent living in Sulamaniyah, surely you'd appreciate America giving you the best opportunities for education in Iraq in decades? Too bad AP didn't interview those parents.

Three More Water Supply Projects Started in Hit, Al Jubayl, and Al Anbar (10/7) Again, fresh clean water to the people is something that Saddam should have delivered. It would only have cost him one of his many palaces.

I want to stress that these are just a handful of projects that I'm aware of going on this week. The CENTCOM newsletter has information about many more projects, including completion of a new 260-bed maternity hospital in Mosul, and the start of construction for a new 400kV substation in Mosul that will allow for an additional two hours of electricity per day in a nation that has never seen 24/7 power to any homes except presidential palaces.

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